i have a parent div, which can change its size, depending on the available space. Within that div, i have floating divs. Now, i would like to have spacing between these divs, but no space to the parent div (see drawing).
Is there a way to do this with CSS?
Thank you
I found a solution, which at least helps in my situation, it probably is not suitable for other situations:
I give all my green child divs a complete margin:
margin: 10px;
And for the surrounding yellow parent div i set a negative margin:
margin: -10px;
I also had to remove any explicit width or height setting for the yellow parent div, otherwise it did not work.
This way, in absolute terms, the child divs are correctly aligned, although the parent yellow div obviously is set off, which in my case is OK, because it will not be visible.
You can do the following:
Assuming your container div has a class "yellow".
.yellow div {
// Apply margin to every child in this container
margin: 10px;
}
.yellow div:first-child, .yellow div:nth-child(3n+1) {
// Remove the margin on the left side on the very first and then every fourth element (for example)
margin-left: 0;
}
.yellow div:last-child {
// Remove the right side margin on the last element
margin-right: 0;
}
The number 3n+1 equals every fourth element outputted and will clearly only work if you know how many will be displayed in a row, but it should illustrate the example. More details regarding nth-child here.
Note: For :first-child to work in IE8 and earlier, a <!DOCTYPE> must be declared.
Note2: The :nth-child() selector is supported in all major browsers, except IE8 and earlier.
Add margin to your div style
margin:0 10px 10px 0;
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_margin.asp
I'm late to the party but... I've had a similar situation come up and I discovered padding-right (and bottom, top, left too, of course). From the way I understand its definition, it puts a padding area inside the inner div so there's no need to add a negative margin on the parent as you did with a margin.
padding-right: 10px;
This did the trick for me!
Is it not just a case of applying an appropriate class to each div?
For example:
.firstRowDiv { margin:0px 10px 10px 0px; }
.secondRowDiv { margin:0px 10px 0px 0px; }
This depends on if you know in advance which div to apply which class to.
A litte late answer.
If you want to use a grid like this, you should have a look at Bootstrap, It's relatively easy to install, and it gives you exactly what you are looking for, all wrapped in nice and simple html/css + it works easily for making websites responsive.
Related
Looking at the bottom example here, if you give .after-box a margin-top:5px it doesn't make a difference as it'll stay in the same location. But if you give .box a margin-bottom:5px it'll move the .after-box down. Why is it that on floated elements, their margin matters but other elements around them don't?
Hey margins don't move floated html elements, instead they push it away.
To give a fake margins on floated elements is to put the content inside another container then apply padding.
.outer {
float: left;
padding: 20px;
}
.inner {
//styles here..
}
I have a bunch of classes, here are 3 as example:
.col-1-3{
width:calc(100%/(3/1));
}
.col-2-3{
width:calc(100%/(3/2));
}
.col-1{
width:100%;
}
(all of these are inline-block and position relative if that info might be useful....)
Now, if an element with any of those classes applied, also have another class applied, lets call it 'batman', I need the element to grow 30px in width.
Without touching each and everyone of my .col-* classes and in there add the 30px, is there any! other way to add to an elements width? see example pseudo code:
.batman{
add-to-width:30px;
}
I was thinking perhaps with :before and/or :after. Adding a pseudo element and somehow move it 15px to the left/right and the main element would follow/grow...but it didnt work....
requirement: strictly css, no javascript please.
Any idea?
thanks in advance!! :)
I believe You have 2 options - first is something like a margin since margins will stack, the other is using calc()
.batman {
margin: 0 15px;
}
or
.batman {
width: calc(100% + 30px);
}
So basically, I want two divs to sit inside another div. The first one is sitting inside with no issues, but the second one floats underneath the parent. When I add overflow:hidden I can't see the div anymore. The closest I've gotten to a solution was to add overflow:auto, but that just creates a scroll bar. I have tried resizing, different positioning, overflow and clearfix but so far I can't find a solution. Any ideas guys? JSFiddle demo here http://jsfiddle.net/QLbGc/ Thanks for any help, it's been annoying me for a couple of days now.
You forgot to put float:left; at the slideshow div
It should be
#slideshow {
background-color: #000;
margin: 15px;
height: 95%;
width: 60%;
-moz-border-radius: 15px;
border-radius: 15px;
float: left;
}
So now you have the 'slideshow' div floating left and 'about' div floating right and they can fit inside the parent div.
Basically they were inside the parent div from the first time but the about div was under slideshow div.
Demo:
http://jsfiddle.net/QLbGc/2/
If you're looking to have the two divs side by side here's a fiddle for that.
http://jsfiddle.net/Hastig/QLbGc/6/
I stripped out a bunch of stuff as I wasn't sure you needed it or it was just stuff you were throwing at it to try and affect change.
Somebody mentioned you were missing a float: left; in what we assume you wanted as your left div.
Remember to compensate for margin and padding to match the container div.
In my example the main container was 500px wide. If I set each float div to 250px width when added to the 20px combined margins on those divs the total width goes to 520px and pushes that right div under the left div so you'll want each floated div at 240px to compensate. Same deal with percentages.
If I misundestood your intention and you're looking to hide one of those div use display: none; on it and double the width of the one you want to show.
try to put this code in your css.
.content::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}
I've been searching around for a while (for the answer) with no success, so I guess I did "my homework"...
So basically I've a gap between 2 divs.
You can see it here.
on your content class
.content {
background: url("panel.png");
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
float: left; /*new style*/
width: 100%; /*new style*/
}
Give overflow:hidden to your .bigtext, like this:
.bigtext{
overflow:hidden;
}
This problem is called "collapsing margins".
Check this http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/collapsingmargins
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html
The gap is caused by the p element.
You need to take the margins off - browsers default behaviour is to add 1em before and after the paragraph.
If you use google chrome, you can right click and goto inspect element. From there you can see what default behaviours have been applied to certain elements on the page. You can even see visually what space has been created by margins. Your gap was one of them. =)
See screenshot below - this is showing the margin applied to another p element.
Try margin: 0; for those divs.
you can hack it by applying margin-top:-23px to the .content div
This page I have is super simple, this should be a breeze but I'm stumped.
I have two DIVs, one inside the other. In the first DIV, I have the margins set so that it lays at the top of the page, centered. The second DIV should lay inside the first, centered, but with a 50px margin at top. However, the 50px margin is being applied to the parent DIV and not the child. If I add a border to the parent DIV, it behaves like I expect it to, but not without.
Can anyone offer me any insight to this? Thanks in advance.
<div id="pageWrapper">
<div id="mainWrapper">
<p>foo</p>
</div>
</div>
*{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}
body{
background-color:#034375;
}
#pageWrapper{
width:960px;
margin:0px auto 0px auto;
background:url('i/blue-gradient.jpg') top left no-repeat;
}
#mainWrapper{
width:500px;
margin:50px auto 0 auto;
border:1px solid #000000;
background-color:#eeeeee;
}
This issue has to do with the CSS spec on rendering adjacent margins. Essentially, because there's nothing "in between" the margins of the containing div and the margins on the inner div, the larger value is used for both.
You'll see this mainly in Firefox, and although the behavior seems to follow the letter of the law, I'm not sure this particular case behaves as intended by the spec writers.
Fortunately, it's easy to fix -- put something "between" the margins. You've already noticed that putting a border on the parent div works. You can make this border transparent, and reduce the inner margin by 1px, and it will appear functionally the same as your above case. Another option is to apply one pixel of padding-top to the parent div. A third option is to use padding-top: 50px on the parent div instead of applying a top margin to the child div.
More information on collapsing margins.
You don't say which browser you're seeing this in. For me it works as expected in Firefox. However, I suspect you're seeing the issue in Internet Explorer. This is probably because the inner div doesn't have hasLayout applied - this is usually the cause of IE styling bugs. Try adding zoom:1 to the mainWrapper CSS declaration and see if that works.
You probably want to set the padding of mainWrapper instead of margin.
padding:50px 0 0 0;
Check out this description of the box model to see how margins and padding differ.